November Snuck Up on Me
I should have gotten this post out last week with another follow-up this week. Well, looks like I will have...
2010-11-01
454 reads
Jason Brimhall
Bucket List
I have no intentions of kicking the bucket – ever. I have no intentions of getting old either. We’ll see how...
2010-10-26
781 reads
Q3 Review
Finally I am getting around to posting my Quarterly Goal review. Last quarter’s review can be found here.
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2010-10-26
747 reads
My SQLSat54 Experience
In case you hadn’t heard SQLSaturday #54 was Oct 23 in Salt Lake City. It was a dreary opening to...
2010-10-25
1,121 reads
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
Time for the ghouls and goblins to come out of the woodwork once again for another tale of deception and...
2010-10-14
2,804 reads
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
Time for the ghouls and goblins to come out of the woodwork once again for another tale of deception and...
2010-10-12
1,429 reads
A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale
If you truncate a table, you cannot undo the action like you can with a delete. What is the difference between the two methods to remove data from a...
2010-10-12
4 reads
October 2010 TSQL Tuesday Reminder
Holy Cow, another month has flown by without much of a hint. We now have upon us another TSQL Tuesday....
2010-10-07
640 reads
It’s Implied
This has been on my radar now for a little over a week. I ran across a request in the...
2010-10-05
755 reads
The Year of the Phantom
It is amazing how fast time moves the older (and slower) we as humans get. Looking back on time, it...
2010-10-03
626 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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